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Mike Hughes Super Bowl LI Jersey , Ariz. — The Arizona Coyotes are barreling toward April with the kind of momentum any NHL playoff team would
enjoy having. The only problem: The Coyotes’ terrible start to the season doomed
any postseason possibilities.
But their new-found success could indeed be a problem for the Nashville Predators, who are very much playoff-bound and competing to win the Presidents’
Trophy as the league’s best team during the regular season.
The Coyotes (23-35-11) will have coach Rick Tocchet back Thursday night at Gila River Arena against the Western Conference-leading Predators (45-14-10) for
the third and final time this season. Tocchet missed Arizona’s 4-3 shootout
victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday to be with his mother, who is
fighting cancer.
Article continues below ... Arizona could also get back starting goaltender Antti Raanta, who has been out since March 3 with a lower-body injury but went through a full practice
Wednesday. Backup goalie Darcy Kuemper was out, too, Tuesday with a game-day
illness. That left rookie Adin Hill, who came up from Tucson of the American
Hockey League, to make 34 saves in his first NHL victory.
Raanta
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season 0-10-1 is 11-3-2 in its last 16 games. During the last month, only the
Predators (25) have more points than the Coyotes (21) among Western Conference
teams.
The Predators are hotter than anyone, winning 11 of their last 12, with the only loss in a shootout. Nashville could overtake Tampa Bay (100 points) for the
NHL lead by winning Thursday. The Lightning don’t play again until Saturday
against the Boston Bruins.
“I feel like as a team and me, too, personally, I think it (the Presidents’ Trophy) is a goal that we can say out loud,” said Predators goalie Pekka
Rinne
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played. “It’s something we haven’t done before here. That would mean a lot to us
all. … There’s not too many banners (in Bridgestone Arena), and that would be
great.”
The Predators missed a chance to gain a banner last season when they lost to the Pittsburgh Penguins in six games in the Stanley Cup finals, when Tocchet was
on Pittsburgh’s bench as an assistant coach.
Nashville also won Tuesday, beating the Winnipeg Jets 3-1 as Rinne made 32 saves and Austin Watson and Viktor Arvidsson scored 34 seconds apart
short-handed in the first period.
“We marked it as a game that had to go our way as we sit here and … battle for what we need to do in order to better ourselves for the (playoffs),”
Predators coach Peter Laviolette said. “Obviously, the division, the conference,
those are things we talk about
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Two points wouldn’t mean that much for the Coyotes except to give them further momentum as they try to made up for a terrible first half of the season
with a respectable second half. They’ve already shown the Predators they can be
a dangerous team, beating them 3-2 in Nashville on Jan. 4 before losing 3-2 in a
shootout on Jan. 18 at Gila River Arena.
“I’m just happy with how the guys are showing up to the rink,” Coyotes assistant coach John MacLean said. “When you win, everyone feels good and your
energy is better. I think we see that during our little run we’re on now.”
Clayton Keller, Arizona’s 19-year-old center, scored his 19th goal of the season against the Kings and now has 50 points, putting him within five points
of breaking Peter Mueller’s franchise rookie record with 54 points.
“You try to go out there and produce every night,” Keller said. “I try to do everything I can to help the team win.”
And wins
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for them in February and March.
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